Yesterday, we reported on the newly revealed music track for Devil May Cry 5, titled Subhuman. It's the song that's set to play when Dante is in combat, but it didn't go down well at all with fans. The video for the song was bombarded with dislikes on YouTube, and later on, the video was taken down.

At the time, we didn't know why it had been removed, and there was speculation that it was because of the fan backlash. However, there was more to the story than many will have realised.

Not long after the video was published, it came to light that the lead singer of the band Suicide Silence, who perform the song and feature in the video, was accused of sexually manipulating a 17 year-old girl in 2017. The singer, Eddie Hermida, had apologised, but didn't fully admit to the charges.

It appears as though these allegations are the reason Capcom has pulled the video. In a statement, the publisher told Waypoint: "The music was recorded for the game before the incident came to light and we were unaware of the incident until now. However, as we are now aware of the current situation, Capcom has decided that moving forward, we will not further highlight the Dante battle theme for promotional purposes at this time. We are also currently evaluating what options are possible for the full game at this point, which is dependent on various factors such as resources."

It's obviously quite a serious situation, and Capcom may think it's best to scrap the song entirely.

Devil May Cry 5 is due to release on the 8th March, 2019, so right now, it'll be reasonably close to completion in terms of development. It sounds like replacement music isn't at all out of the question, but it's going to come down to whether Capcom, like it says, has the time and resources to produce something new.

Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.

It makes complete sense to remove the music entirely from the game. As far as time and resources go, I am sure they could open it up for a 'Fan' or budding musician to create a new piece of battle-music with the promise of having their work in a game and a credit at the end for the 'winning' artist - maybe even some 'exposure' or even appear on stage playing the music live at a 'launch' event. That publicity could be priceless or even a dream come true for a fan... Hardly likely to put a massive strain on budget, time or resources....

Pull the song from the game, any reason will suffice. I mean it’s terrible what happened and all, (this is actually a reason to be upset with someone unlike a tweet from ten years ago), but I just want the music to good in DMCV. Hopefully he’ll meet justice though. Absolutely despicable.

Nah, don't scrap the song entirely. The music itself is perfectly fine, great even (imo), it was the vocals that were trash. Even more reason to have someone else do that part (or go with the instrumental) if that guy is a jerk.

If they don't remove all the content he's contributed, I won't be buying it, simple as that. Very poor excuses, they should be trying to distance themselves from this male and his behaviour as much as they possibly can.

@LieutenantFatman Good you were live with them and know everything that happened. While you're at it there are probably a lot of movies, music and games you should burn as there were people involved with similar accusations.

Don't act the fool, this doesn't happen. Too many dudes out there don't know how to keep themselves from acting like complete idiots around women and I'll never understand it. What's worse here is the situation involves a teenage girl.

Should've just stuck with the same composers from the previous entries. Asides being an awful song, I can't say much for the band, that style isn't so broad and I've known that they're well loathed by extreme music fans.